RE: Revert Adapting text language replacing "adapt" with "change"

So, would "by setting all of the following, without setting any other style property" address the concern?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Repsher, Stephen J [mailto:stephen.j.repsher@boeing.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 1:21 PM
> To: White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org>; Laura Carlson
> <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>; Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
> Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>; David MacDonald <david@can-adapt.com>;
> Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
> Subject: RE: Revert Adapting text language replacing "adapt" with "change"
>
>
> "Setting" seems reasonable to me. Regarding "only", do you mean "setting all of
> the following, without changing other text style properties"?
> [Steve] Yes and no.  I mean without changing **any** other property.  In other
> words, the user agent should be able to make those 4 changes alone without
> loss, and if other changes are required (e.g. container sizing), that defeats the
> purpose of the SC.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Repsher, Stephen J [mailto:stephen.j.repsher@boeing.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 11:02 AM
> > To: White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org>; Laura Carlson
> > <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>; Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
> > Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>; David MacDonald <david@can-
> adapt.com>;
> > Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
> > Subject: RE: Revert Adapting text language replacing "adapt" with "change"
> >
> > Alright, how about just using "set" as the verb then...
> >
> > "If the technologies being used allow the user agent to set text style
> > properties, then no loss of essential content or functionality occurs
> > by setting all of the following:"
> >
> > That should fix that problem, but I'm inclined to say we need the word
> > "only" in there somewhere given the discussion even amongst ourselves
> > had to reiterate it.  I had tossed that in there a while back but not
> > sure why it was removed and would have to check the GitHub thread.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: White, Jason J [mailto:jjwhite@ets.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 10:44 AM
> > To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>; Andrew Kirkpatrick
> > <akirkpat@adobe.com>
> > Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>; David MacDonald <david@can-
> adapt.com>;
> > Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
> > Subject: RE: Revert Adapting text language replacing "adapt" with "change"
> >
> > I remain concerned that David's proposal doesn't address Andrew's case
> > in which no "change" is necessary, because the content already meets
> > the four requirements listed in the SC. I suppose one could say that
> > there's a trivial null transformation involved (i.e., no change could
> > still be treated as a "change"), which is however counter-intuitive
> > and a very subtle - indeed dubious - interpretation of the text.
> >
> > I'm leaning toward saying, no, I can't live with David's revert.
> >
> > Perhaps "ensuring all of the following" would be better, where "ensuring"
> > includes either changing or leaving alone if the author has already
> > met the specified thresholds.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Laura Carlson [mailto:laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 10:05 AM
> > > To: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
> > > Cc: White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org>; WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>;
> > > David MacDonald <david@can-adapt.com>; Alastair Campbell
> > > <acampbell@nomensa.com>
> > > Subject: Re: Revert Adapting text language replacing "adapt" with "change"
> > >
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > >
> > > Text at the end of our November 13, 2017 meeting:
> > >
> > > "If the technologies being used allow the user agent to change text
> > > style properties, the following can be achieved with no loss of
> > > essential content or
> > > functionality:
> > > * the 4 things
> > >
> > > David's proposed revert [5]:
> > >
> > > "If the technologies being used allow the user agent to change text
> > > style properties, then no loss of essential content or functionality
> > > occurs by changing all of the following:"
> > > * the 4 things
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > Kindest Regards,
> > > Laura
> > >
> > > [5]
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> > > On 11/16/17, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com> wrote:
> > > > Laura,
> > > > I’m sure that the options were clearly laid out somewhere in the
> > > > thread, but I don’t have time to find it. Can you clearly lay out
> > > > “before” and “proposed” options?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > AWK
> > > >
> > > > Andrew Kirkpatrick
> > > > Group Product Manager, Accessibility Adobe
> > > >
> > > > akirkpat@adobe.com
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> > > > On 11/16/17, 09:56, "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >     Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > >     I wrote:
> > > >     > Andrew, Jason, and everyone else, can you live with reverting the
> > > >     > adapting text language by replacing "adapt" with "change" as David
> > > >     > suggested? [5]
> > > >
> > > >     Please let me rephrase that.
> > > >
> > > >     After reviewing the video demonstration, draft technique, and test
> > > >     results can anyone not live with reverting the adapting text language
> > > >     by replacing "adapt" with "change" to what David suggested?
> > > >
> > > >     Thank you.
> > > >
> > > >     Best Regards,
> > > >     Laura
> > > >
> > > >     On 11/15/17, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >     > Hello Andrew, Jason, and all,
> > > >     >
> > > >     > Andrew wrote [1]:
> > > >     >> It would help me to understand exactly what steps you
> > > > envision a user
> > > >     >> would need to
> > > >     >> follow to achieve the following four items, and provide an
> > > > example page
> > > >     >> that shows
> > > >     >> this working as you envision it.
> > > >     >
> > > >     > Alastair provided a video demonstration of what a person
> > > > would need to
> > > >     > do to test for the four items on the BBC and Adobe
> > > > homepages.[2] Thank
> > > >     > you, Alastair!
> > > >     >
> > > >     > For that step-by-step process in text, please check our draft
> > > >     > technique "Allowing for Spacing Override". [3]
> > > >     >
> > > >     > For results of the testing that we completed using that step-by-step
> > > >     > procedure, please check the "Results of Bookmarklet Tests for Issue
> > > >     > 78".[4] Between July 25 and August 3, 2017, 67 pages were tested. If
> > > >     > the spacing parameters supplied by the author already meets
> > > > or exceeds
> > > >     > the SC's specified metrics, the content passes the test using the
> > > >     > bookmarklet.
> > > >     >
> > > >     > Does the video demonstration, draft technique, and test results
> > > >     > provide the clarity needed?
> > > >     >
> > > >     > Andrew, Jason, and everyone else, can you live with reverting the
> > > >     > adapting text language by replacing "adapt" with "change" as David
> > > >     > suggested? [5]
> > > >     >
> > > >     > Thank you.
> > > >     >
> > > >     > Kindest Regards,
> > > >     > Laura
> > > >     >
> > > >     > [1]
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> > > >     Laura L. Carlson
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> > > Laura L. Carlson
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